Organization Overview
ODVA, Inc. (formerly Open DeviceNet Vendors Association, Inc.) is an international standards development and trade organization with members from the world’s leading automation suppliers.
ODVA’s mission is to advance open, interoperable information and communication technologies for industrial automation. Its standards include the Common Industrial Protocol or “CIP™,” ODVA’s media independent network protocol – and industrial communication technologies including EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet® and others.
For interoperability of production systems and their integration with other systems, ODVA embraces the adoption of commercial-off-the-shelf, standard Internet and Ethernet technologies as a guiding principle. This principle is exemplified by EtherNet/IP – today’s leading industrial Ethernet network.
Position to OPC UA
ODVA is working to enhance the value of EtherNet/IP™ by enabling reliable, secure communications between CIP™-enabled industrial control system devices and the cloud as well as to enable common cloud gateway and device management tasks. In this context, the cloud can encompass off-premise, on-premise, public, private and hybrid cloud deployments. OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA), one of many industry standard technologies commonly used across all major cloud vendors, has been integrated into leading cloud vendors’ gateway reference architectures, providing for general purpose industrial gateways. The commonality of OPC UA and its extensibility, which will help ODVA realize its vision of the Common Industrial Cloud Interface (CICI), led to the launching of a joint working group with the OPC Foundation to develop an OPC UA companion specification to the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP).
From https://www.odva.org/technology-standards/market-drivers/process-automation/iiot-industry-4-0-2-opc-ua/
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